All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Advice
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Prayer
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Intuition, Instincts
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Action
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Destiny, Time Management, Value of Time
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Greatness & Great Things, Greatness
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Self-reliance, Discovery, Adversity, Self-Discovery, Suffering, Confidence, Difficulties
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Beauty
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Observation, Truth
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body … can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Prayer
As to virtue … it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Personality
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Prayer
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched… . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality … . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Accomplishment
Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Prayer
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action .. . Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Belief, Faith
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Personality
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Revolution
When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
—Alexis Carrel
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
—Alexis Carrel
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
—Alexis Carrel
Topics: Forgiveness, Responsibility
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